Sentences with phrase «virtues at»

Experiment with single virtues at first, increasing them as their vocabulary develops.

They are able to express many virtues at once.

The installation was created for the exhibition Civic Virtues at Nations Bank Plaza, Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1994.

The call comes in a report published today by the think tank and the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham.

Patience is not one of my virtues at all!

Bars need to offer a compelling combination of flavour and nutritional virtues at a decent price point to impress.

If so, then perhaps faith, hope and love are not virtues at all, but created human functions that are themselves subject to virtuous or vicious use.

So I guess my point is that maybe Christianity has focused on the physical act of sex, and ignored the underlying moral virtues at stake, like chastity.

Personally it would not be a bad thing at all if he never preached or ran a religious empire again... if his teaching has any merit, he should submit himself to it from the pew and demonstrate it's virtue at least as long as he has lauded it's power from the pulpit.

But if we don't identify false stigmas and misconceptions, we will devote time and energy to cultivating a «virtue» that isn't really a virtue at all.

«Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.

It would seem that God came to the same conclusion that America's founders did many millennia later: compulsory virtue is no virtue at all.

Civility is today often judged to be a wimpish virtue or no virtue at all.

compulsory virtue is no virtue at all.»

Patience is the ultimate virtue at Villanova and there's a very real road map for how it can pay off.

If they see Per and Kos replaced with Gab and Mustafi then they will have witnessed a change of guard at the back and know they are in line next... patience is a virtue at times.

The consensus of programmers is that shorter is a limited virtue at best in making things easier to read.

As transparency is another incontestable virtue at Hyde, I was invited to sit in on one such session.

Not exact matches

The one virtue of startups that these big companies do seem to value and appreciate above all (and one that makes acquisitions so attractive rather than internal R&D efforts) is the freedom we have to embrace rapid change, the ability to adapt and pivot, and the understanding that things may never be perfect at the start, but that you'll never get started at all if you wait until they are.

I would have thought being amicable at work would have been seen as a virtue not something to be seen as a negative?

At the University of Oklahoma, a fraternity sang about the virtues of lynching.

Paul first expounded at length on Kennan's virtues in an address entitled «Containment and Radical Islam,» delivered at the Heritage Foundation in February 2013.

«Perfectionism is a virtue to be extolled definitely,» Prem Fry, a psychology professor at Trinity Western University in Canada has said.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

You're going to prove that you can be empathetic and professional at the same time, which is a combination of virtues one should display at all times, not just when things are emotionally intense.

When Kalafar looks at his unsold TDI clean diesels, he finds it ironic Volkswagen spent years preaching the virtues of clean diesel engines.

First, the report also tracks action at the provincial level, and several provinces that had marketed themselves as beacons of virtue in contrast to Harper — Ontario, British Columbia and Manitoba under its former NDP government — turn out to have underperformed, too.

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

The industry is changing at breakneck speed, but it is also a place where old - fashioned virtues lead to higher profits and more business from new clients.

If AutoZone grows at an average of 10 % per annum for the next decade, this means that in the first year alone, you would collect nearly an extra $ 87,000 in market wealth that you otherwise couldn't have earned simply by fact of the virtue that $ 868,686 is still invested for your benefit.

At first, consumers often flock to foreign brands out of curiosity or out of a blind belief in their virtues.

A meeting was held at New York University's Real Estate Institute on October 25 to discuss the virtues and pitfalls of constructing a land - price index to distinguish between land and building values.

The founders of our nation, such as Thomas Paine, recognized the distinction between principles and men - between the virtues of a nation and the individuals who lead it at any particular time.

Apart from the virtues of an ETF like TBT that can be godsend in a bond market sell - off, it's worth pulling back and looking at Treasury yields over the longer term.

So, while the value of the investments in a stable value fund can fluctuate on a daily basis, a participant is guaranteed to transact at «book value» by virtue of the fund's insurance purchase.

Speaking to an audience of central bankers at the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Christine Lagard extolled the virtues of virtual currencies as an alternative to traditional currency.

With this encomium to Rick's virtue that seem like a campaign elegy, I don't mean to write off his chances for ultimately winning the nomination as the primary season goes on (though I think the chances are doubtful at best).

Don't forget the big conference at Berry College this Thursday and Friday on the public policy dimension of being stuck with virtue — featuring Ben Hippen, Paul McHugh, Jim Capretta, and Jean Elshtain.

The first THE TRUE SCIENCE OF BEING STUCK WITH VIRTUE conference will be at Berry on November 4 - 5.

Do we not ignore at our own peril Augustine's distinction between the intrinsically normative intellectual virtue of studiositas and a strictly procedural, agnostic quest for new information (curiositas)?

It is true that the virtues underlying civil society — altruism, trustworthiness, charity — exist in all places at all times.

It is striking that the great ascetic and solitary should at his death speak only of communal virtues, of the bonds of fellowship, of mutual love.

And Thoreau, standing at the door of our age, elucidates, for the first time since the Cynics, the philosophical centrality of the virtue of poverty.

The Cynic, at war with society for his soul, lives a martial life, the continual hardships of self - sufficiency and frugality, for which courage is the essential virtue.

The author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.

While our founders greatly valued religion as a public instructor of virtue, Rousseau thought that religions should only have educational power in spheres not relevant to society at large, and further that the state should determine those precise boundaries.

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity is rendered especially poignant by Cheever's recent death from cancer at age 69.

The virtue - signaling mother in that beauty shop notwithstanding, there's an intuitive understanding that we're dealing here with real psychological distress — «gender dysphoria,» in the technical vocabulary — and that this and similar problems ought not be political ping - pong balls, because lives are at stake.

At 2 pm he would start his work, meditating on the virtues of faith, hope and charity.

It must further be stipulated that there are moral people — at least in terms of the virtues appropriate to the temporal realm — who do not draw their morality from sources ostensibly religious in nature.